Greater Manchester Historic Houses

Bramall Hall   

One of Cheshire’s most imposing black and white timber-framed buildings. It is a manor house built in the traditional local style. The framework is constructed with oak timbers, joined together using mortise and tenon joints and held in place with oak pegs. Wattle and daub or lath and plaster were used to fill the spaces between the timbers

Stockport  SK1 4JF Tel: 0161 485 3708  Email

Dunham Massey Hall & Park 

An early Georgian house, with remarkable collections of walnut furniture, paintings and Huguenot silver. The park has gardens gardens with richly planted borders and majestic trees, as well as an orangery, Victorian bark house and well house. The ancient deer park contains a series of beautiful avenues and ponds.

Altrincham  WA14 4SJ  Tel: 0161 941 1025  Email

Haigh Hall and Country Park   

Dating back to 1850 the was previously owned by the Earl of Crawford and now a conference and activity centre. The country park provides a number of activities; Information & Gift Shop, Cafeteria, Stables Art and Craft Gallery & Courtyard, Playground, Model Village, Gardens, Miniature Railway

Haig, Wigan WN2 1PE  Tel: 01942 832895   Email

Hall i’ th’ Wood   

Originally built as a half-timbered hall in the 15th century and was owned by wealthy yeomen and merchants and was once the home of Samuel Crompton, who invented the Spiining Mule which revolutionized the cotton industry.

Green Way, off Crompton Way, Bolton BL1 8UA    Tel: 01204 332370   Email

Heaton Hall & Park

The present Hall was built by Sir Thomas Egerton who was made the first Earl of Wilton in 1801.  With it’s high quality decor and paintings, rooms that are open to the public, include the Cupola, (originally Lady Egerton’s dressing-room) which has mirrored walls and a domed ceiling, styled in the 1770’s ’Pompeiian’ style -so rare that there are only three such rooms left in Britain. In the music room an 18th century organ fills one wall

Prestwich, Manchester M25 2SW  Tel: 0161 773 1231   

Lyme Park  

The hall was the home of the Legh family from 1346 until 1946 when it became a National Trust property.  The park around the hall covers more  than 1300 acres. The state rooms are adorned with Mortlake tapestries, Grinling Gibbons wood-carvings and an important collection of English clocks

Disley, Stockport  SK12 2NX  Tel: 01663 762023   Email

Ordsall Hall  & Museum

A magnificent black and white half timbered Tudor manor house located in the heart of Salford. Fully furnished with 17th Century furniture and exhibits. The hall was purchased by Salford Corporation from the Executors of the Baron Egerton of Tatton in 1959 and, following major restoration work, was finally opened to the public in April 1972 as a period house and local history museum.

Ordsall Lane, Ordsall, Salford  M5 3AN Tel: 01618 720251  Email

Smithills Hall & Country Park

Begun in the mid fourteenth century and is the oldest timber-framed manor house in Greater Manchester. The Park comprises 2000 acres and sits on the edge of the West Pennine Moors with fine views of Bolton and the surrounding area.

Dean Road, Bolton BL1 7NP  Tel: 01204 332 377  Email

Turton Tower

The period rooms display a magnificent collection of decorative woodwork, paintings and furniture, including items loaned form the Victoria and Albert Museum. The surrounding gardens offer further interest with Victorian follies, a Victorian tennis court, a traditional English country garden and an unusual castellated railway bridge.

Chapeltown Road,  Turton, Near Bolton  BL7 0HG Tel: 01204 852203  Email

Wythenshawe Hall & Park    

A splendid half-timbered house dating from Tudor times, set in the beautiful grounds of Wythenshawe Park in south Manchester. It was the home of the Tatton family for nearly four hundred years and has a long and eventful history, including a dramatic role in English Civil War.

The oldest part of the Hall dates from around 1540 and original woodwork, workmen’s marks and an intricately-painted frieze still survive from this period. Over the next four hundred years the Hall was further developed with the addition of the library wing and a tennants’ hall. Now an art gallery.

Northenden  Manchester  M23 0AB  Tel: 0161 998 2331